The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-14
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.


Domestic News
Mormons and Gentiles celebrated the
Fourth at Salt Lake City.
100000 in gold was received at New York
last week. from Europe.
The 81 ;,,mcnts Of fractional silver coin
during tie month OF June amounted to
s6ss. .446
The Michigan Secretary of State esti-
mates the wheat crop of that state at 81
OOO, 600 bushels.
Three brothers named Moffatt were
drowned near Fenlon Falls, Ont, while
bathing in Runyon river
Three hundred and fifty money order off,
ces were established July s. Ninety addi-
tional postal note Offices.
At the House Of Mercy, New York, a six
teen year-old, committed there, was re-
fused because she was colored.
The issue Of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ending July 2,
was $5O9,0 The same time last year, $4s7,
Nearly 500 Pinkerton and other detectives
will be distributed about the Pennsylvania
coke regions to protect any Of the old en-
ployes who return to work.
During church picnic at Susquehanna
Pa, the roof of hall collapsed. Nine per-
sons We're seriously injured. Maggie Griffin
and Crit Williams may die.
The Topeka Farmer says that the wheat
crop of the state will not exceed twenty five
per cent of that harvested three years ago.
Corn, however, promises large crop.
The Salt Lake Tribune declares that the
article in the proposed Mormon state con-
stitution pretending to abolish polygamy is
fraud and sham, as it can easily be evaded.
July 4, meeting in favor Of commercial
union with the United States was held at
Port Hope, Ont Addresses were made by
Hon. Ben Butterworth, Erastus Wyman and
others.
The a.COO employees Of the Reading Iron
works, July /, informed the management
that they would not accept the reduction Of
10 FER cent. made recently. The proprietors
decided to close down.
The l49th call for sl9, ,7l6, COO per cent bonds
matured on the lst, inst. Since then $751;
| 5l2, 600 Of the bonds have been redeemed by
the treasury department, leaving N,2O4 $40
Of that cali still outstanding
The business failures for the past seven
days, according to II. g. Dun &, Co., num-
ber tor the United States l55, and for Can
ada %; total 1S1, compared with 1S9 last
week, and for the hecorresponding week last
year l19.
Walla Walla, Wash, complains to the in
terstate commissioners that the freight per
| 100 pounds on cotton piece goods from Chi
cagO to Walla Walla ia $4,7O, while to Port
land, Or, $50 miles further, it is only $l.2O
per 100 pounds.
| Mr.Powderly, in a speech at Scranton,
Pa, said there was too much indiscriminate
immigration for the good of labor, aud
every immigrant should be able to show
that he was self supporting for one year be-
fore landing on these shores.
At Buffalo, N. Y, the extreme heat of the
past week had the effect Of increasing the
death rate to almost double that of the cor
responding week of last year, the deaths
being ninety-t three and fifty respectively.
Monday the deaths in New York numbered
200 and Tuesday they were ass.
A terrible and fatal scourge is now raging
on Cockburn Island, Lake Huron. The dis
ease broke out last week and from Friday
to Tuesday nine deaths had occurred, and
the mortality was seemingly on the increase.
The disease is supposed to be diphtheria.
There is no doctor on the island, and the in
habitants are fleeing for their lives.
Mr.. J. w. Sanborn secretary Of the Mis-
souri, state board of agriculture, makes the
following crop report for June: Wheat
average condition, 95 .OS; spring wheat, "
oats, S9.O3; corn, lO5O6; Irish potatoes
L tOh "
s3.O5; apples CLOS; peaches, 81; grapes, 81
At Cohoes, N. Y, July |, was, according
to custom in the Harmony Woolen mills
the semi-annual scrubbing day, when tht
weavers are required to scrub the floors o.
and quit work, whereupon the mills wer'
closed, throwing about three thousand eigh
hundred operators out OF employment
The Utah constitutional convention com
pleted and adopted its constitution on tn
7th. The p!anks already mentioned regard
ing bigany aud polygamy, representation
for the minority and separation OF churcl
and state, were adopted with Others Tn
vote of the people win be taken in August
Only those who have taken the ''test oath
will vote on the ratification.
At Tonawacda, Pa, on the sth, Mrs. lisa
, belle Lyon, wife Of DR.. Randolph Lyon VIII
murdered Richard Moe on Saturday b,
shooting, and afterwards killed himself
, committed suicide by taking strychnin
about 10 O'Clock, her death following shortl
after terrible agony. 1t is thought tina
{ grief and depression drove her to this las
act OF tragedy by which three person
! have been murdered.
The statistics of immigration at the por
of New York for the first six months Of tn
/ l.. 2~~>~ la
parison with the same portion Of last veal
= The figures are: First six months of 1856
l4S, ,SO7; first six months i6S7-2l2.655. Fo
the whole year 1886 there landed 3OO, ,91S i'm
migrants. II the immigration continues fo
the next six months at the increased rat
this year will show gain to nearly 5OO,OO
+ The Fourth was, as usual, observed .
, a universal holiday and celebrated in var
ous ways, but with less formality than
{ sometimes observed and happily there is n
record Of distressing casualties. The MOI
= tysburg, when the veterans Of the Blue an
i. dray. united in fTateynal cermonies. MIR
Pickett, widow Of one Of the Union herot
8 was present and was extensively lionized.
!. The payments from the U. 8. Treasury Q
= account of pensions since the 1st ins
=" amount to nearly $l2, ,OOO, 600. The expend
+ lures SO far this month exceed the receip
.. by over 900, and the indication is thu
8 this excess will be maintained, II not u
r creased, through the month. it is sti
maintained at the treasury departmel
that the large expenditures to be made b,
tween now and the first Of September wi
reduce the treasury, surplus to about $3t
o. COO, 600 by the last named date.
@ A special from Paducah, KY, says:
g 1873, while J. Hamp Swift was sheriff
Galloway county, Kentucky, his accoun
n were $3, ,6OO short. He thought deputy hs
, robbed him Making good the deficient
- bankrupted him, and he has since su
q ported bis family as a day laborer. r
:. Gently bis wife was sent to the insal
" asyi,im. and in her rawlings told of mon,
n. hidden in q smoke house. Investigation !
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